Siân Dutton is a Reader in Physics and Solid State Chemistry at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on exploring the properties of complex oxides for energy applications including batteries and solid state magnetic cooling. Prior to taking up the fellowship in 2012, Siân was a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Prof. Bob Cava in Princeton University where she worked on geometrically frustrated magnetic systems. Siân completed her DPhil., ‘Synthesis and characterisation of mixed-metal oxides’ under the supervision of Prof. Peter Battle, University of Oxford in 2009.